This episode spotlights advocacy strategies and conditions for successful school funding reform in the South.

Guests

• Mark Dixon, President, A+ Education Partnership
• Rachel Canter, Director of Education Policy, Progressive Policy Institute
• Alexza Barajas Clark, Ph.D, Executive Director, EdTrust-Tennessee

In this episode, school funding experts Rebecca Sibilia, EdFund, and Qubilah Huddleston, EdTrust, break down how states fund school districts and what good policies for fair school funding look like.

In this episode, Juliana Hoover Potash speaks with three student advocates: Kaleb Sy, Luisa Sanchez, and Jordan Madden about their education stories and how they've dedicated themselves to improving education today.

The first episode kicks off in Memphis at the National Civil Rights Museum featuring Dr. Russ Wigginton, President at the National Civil Rights Museum, and Qubilah Huddleston, Policy Lead for Equitable School Funding at EdTrust, for a discussion about why fair school funding in the South has always mattered.